107 results about "Pagination" patented technology

The present invention is useful for assembling a book. The inventive method includes the steps of specifying pagination information including an indication of whether a page is to be selectively included in the book, determining whether the page is to be assembled into the book based on the pagination information, and generating page description language instructions for production of the book in accordance with the pagination information.

A system and method for paginating objects, such as graphical images, within a predefined space, such as a viewable or printed page, is provided. The system and method includes substantially evenly distributing graphical images on a selected number of pages. Alternately, the system and method may determine remainders based on supplied numbers of graphical images per page and total number of pages, and redetermine and reassign depending upon the remainders, or may employ a page layout technique using scoring to establish a best layout for available graphical images and assign graphical images to pages using the page layout technique, or may determine pagination based on expected viewing conditions. The system and method may also receive specific hard page breaks establishing chapters and compute soft page breaks based on certain criteria.

The present invention relates to content folding of a web page to enable rendering of the web page on a resource-constrained device, and more particularly to interrelated methods, gateway and device for folding, unfolding and rendering of a web page with reduced layout attributes, thus being vertically elongated. Embodiments of the invention analyze the structure and content of the web page and subsequently fold content that carries less information and which would impair the user experience if left unfolded. Other embodiments of the invention unfold previously folded content at an end-users discretion. Embodiments of the invention further offer an integrated pagination solution for folded and unfolded web-pages, and overall customizes the web-page to maximize the user-experience on a device with constrained resources.

The present invention is useful for assembling a book. The inventive method includes the steps of specifying pagination information including an indication of whether a page is to be selectively included in the book, determining whether the page is to be assembled into the book based on the pagination information, and generating page description language instructions for production of the book in accordance with the pagination information.

A text enhancement method and apparatus for the presentation of text for improved human reading. The method includes extracting text specific attributes from machine readable text and varying the text presentation in accordance with the attributes. The preferred embodiment of the method: extracts parts of speech and punctuation from a sentence, applies folding rules which use the parts of speech to determine folding points, and presents text segments each on a new line and having a determined horizontal displacement based on the text specific attributes. One method displays text over bent curves having a shape based on text content. Another method includes displaying relative text position within a hierarchy using alternating vertically and horizontally tiled planes. Another method supports reading text segments across opposed pages without waiting for paging. Yet another method displays text to allow reading from bottom to top as though from front to back. Still another method displays words in colors reflecting the relationships between the words and the larger text segments of which they are apart.

Dynamic pagination for electronic documents, such as electronic books, is disclosed. In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method first processes a document made up of at least text, as a number of segments. Second, the method determines a number of page breaks within a predetermined segment. This segment, for example, may be entered into the memory of a viewing device, such as an electronic book device. Third, the method renders a predetermined page within the predetermined segment, and finally displays the predetermined page. For example, the page can be displayed on a display device such as a flat-panel display of an electronic book device.

The invention relates to a method for realizing hyperlinks of electronic books, comprising the following steps of: building pagination link directories for the electronic books, wherein each pagination in the pagination link directories is linked to a respectively corresponding page; selecting keywords in the electronic books and setting the hyperlinks for the keywords such that the keywords are linked to associated link targets; and storing hyperlink setting information of the electronic books. By means of implementing the method for realizing the hyperlinks of the electronic books, disclosed by the invention, the pagination link directories can be automatically built for the electronic books and the hyperlinks can be freely set for the contents of the electronic books by users, thus users are facilitated to carry out quick jump reading, and the requirements of the users for free extended reading are satisfied.

The present invention relates to a system and methodology that provides for adjusting content that is to be received and displayed by a device so that the content is meaningful to a recipient. The invention provides for rendering of variable-sized pages of dynamic content based at least in part on user interface (UT) characteristics of a receiving device (e.g., client program). One particular aspect of the invention provides for an abstraction layer that permits a content developer to specify what content is to be displayed to an end user without requiring the developer to delineate markup tags that are to be employed by different browsers of respective mobile devices. Thus, for example, such aspect of the invention provides for automatically adjusting (e.g., paginating) content into variable-sized pages appropriate for a requesting device. A content analyzer receives and analyzes content to be rendered at a plurality of recipient devices against display capabilities of the respective devices. An abstraction layer accesses information relating to capabilities of the devices, and maps attributes relating to the content to the device capabilities, the abstraction layer provides the mapping to the content analyzer. A content distributor parses the content into subsets coincident with the display capabilities of the respective devices, and sequentially distributes respective subsets to the devices for rendering thereof.

A text enhancement method and apparatus for the presentation of text for improved human reading. The method includes extracting text specific attributes from machine readable text and varying the text presentation in accordance with the attributes. The preferred embodiment of the method: extracts parts of speech and punctuation from a sentence, applies folding rules which use the parts of speech to determine folding points, and presents text segments each on a new line and having a determined horizontal displacement based on the text specific attributes. One method displays text over bent curves having a shape based on text content. Another method includes displaying relative text position within a hierarchy using alternating vertically and horizontally tiled planes. Another method supports reading text segments across opposed pages without waiting for paging. Yet another method displays text to allow reading from bottom to top as though from front to back. Still another method displays words in colors reflecting the relationships between the words and the larger text segments of which they are apart.

Described are methods and systems for navigating between pages of a document. A pagination scrollbar is provided on a portion of the computer user interface, to navigate from a first portion of the document to a second portion of the document. The pagination scrollbar includes a navigation selection area that displays a page selection menu based on a user action performed by the user. The page selection menu includes one or more pagination links, each pagination link representing a unique page in the document. The pagination links are operable to navigate from the current page to a page represented by one of the pagination links selected from the page selection menu, based on a pagination link selection.

A pen-based system that automatically identifies either single page or multi-page forms when data is a written on paper copies of the form. The system captures pen stroke data as an untrained user fills out the paper form attached to its surface. The sequence and location of the raw pen-stroke data is analyzed to determine which form the user was filling out and which field on each page was the intended field for the subsets of stroke data. The form / field identification method allows the electronic clipboard to be used as if it were an ordinary clipboard. One of several single or multi-page forms in the selected, and attached to the clipboard without any special attention to its positioning. The user can fill out fields in any order skipping between pages at will, leaving fields blank, etc. and having no other interaction with the clipboard.

The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for creating Web forms with automatically generated links. A database mapping for a database is accessed. One or more dynamic queries for querying a database are automatically formulated. The dynamic queries are included in an automatically generated Web site for the database in accordance with the database mapping. User-selected links are also included for executed the dynamic queries. Selection of a link causes a corresponding dynamic query to execute. Relationships between tables in a database can be inferred even when a relationship is not expressly described in schema describing the database. Dynamic queries can be any of sorting, pagination, addition, deletion, and modification queries.

The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for creating Web forms with automatically generated links. A database mapping for a database is accessed. One or more dynamic queries for querying a database are automatically formulated. The dynamic queries are included in an automatically generated Web site for the database in accordance with the database mapping. User-selected links are also included for executed the dynamic queries. Selection of a link causes a corresponding dynamic query to execute. Relationships between tables in a database can be inferred even when a relationship is not expressly described in schema describing the database. Dynamic queries can be any of sorting, pagination, addition, deletion, and modification queries.

The present invention is a software method for the authoring and generation of highly resizable document layouts that automatically adapt to a wide range of window and screen sizes spanning the desktop to smartphones by interpolating and adaptively skipping the display of document layouts mapped to multiple reference windows called key-frames such that the generated document layouts and styles in a runtime document window are adjusted to be as close to the author's intent as possible. The adaptive display-skipping technique can also be extended to support adaptive pagination of document layouts.

A method for identifying header / footer content of a document, in order to sequence text fragments comprising recognizable text blocks as derived from the document. The textual variability of lines comprised of text blocks, including the different kinds of text blocks within the line is analyzed for assessment of textual variability. Header / footer zones are defined by textual content having a low textual variability. An alternative embodiment identifies pagination constructs by comparing selected text-boxes for similarity and proximity and clustering the text boxes satisfying a predetermined similarity value, wherein the clustered text boxes are deemed to comprise pagination constructs.

The invention discloses a txt file reading method based on a brew platform and a reader thereof. The method comprises the following steps: virtually dividing the txt file into a plurality of file blocks according to the set macro values; sequentially loading the file blocks and decoding the contents of the file blocks according to the reading sequence; carrying out pagination treatment on the decoded file blocks according to the display requirements and storing page table information of the decoded file blocks; calling an interface function of the brew platform for pages to be read and displaying the information according to the stored page table information. The invention has no limitation on the size of the text file, and simultaneously carries out the self-adapting analysis and the self-adapting typesetting function on the target file, and users can realize the diversified operation and use.

On-line or computer based document generation and consumption has become as common, or more so, than paper based document generation and consumption. With the move away from paper there is no longer the physical restriction of the paper on which a document may be printed. It is still desirable, however, to break documents into readable pages. We allow a selection of logical page breaks at locations that are deemed convenient, also allow for selection of approximate page dimensions for pages within each logical section. Because these pages are approximate, pagination is less computationally expensive than fixed pagination. Moreover, many of the appearance problems that plague fixed pagination dissolve.

The invention relates to a webpage segmentation technology, and aims at the defect of information loss caused by simplification of content when adjusting Internet webpages in the prior art, and provides a webpage segmentation method and a webpage segmentation system. The webpage segmentation method includes receiving a webpage address and sending a webpage access request; obtaining a corresponding webpage based on the webpage address, and constructing a DOM tree corresponding to the webpage; constructing a corresponding basic page set for each leaf node in the original DOM tree; As a critical value, sequentially merge adjacent basic page sets to generate at least one corresponding paging set; build a paging DOM tree based on each node in each paging set and their affiliation with each other, and then construct a corresponding paging DOM tree based on the paging DOM tree The pagination is sent to the client. The invention also provides a web page segmentation system. The invention divides the webpage based on the size of the display area of ​​the client browser, and can keep the order of the webpage content in the webpage.

The respective jobs of copying, printing, scanning, and faxing processed by an integrated application are unitarily divided into four job steps. A package of function modules 41A selectively used in the respective jobs is classified into four groups of input, create, edit, and output function modules 410 to 412 according to the division. A data format is unified into bitmap by a create function module 411A, and the bitmap data is processed by an edit function module 411B for pagination or aggregation, etc. In response to receiving setting information and a job code, a job controlling module 43A creates job step control blocks 440 to 442 and writes the information therein to create a job. Each of job step controlling (JSC) modules 450 to 452 starts a function module for each page, and after the completion thereof, creates a thread control block for the next downstream side JSC module.

The invention discloses a method for analyzing internet web page contents, comprising the following steps: judging whether a web page to be analyzed is generated by a template; if the web page is generated by the template and the template which is matched with the web page to be analyzed exists in a web page template library, utilizing the template corresponding to the web page to be analyzed to analyze the contents in the web page; and otherwise, generating a web page template corresponding to the web page to be analyzed, adding the generated web page template to the web page template library, and utilizing the template to analyze the web page. The invention also provides a corresponding device. The invention can perform pagination on each website and even each different channel, analyze and process web pages in a targeted mode, automatically analyze whether the web page is generated by a template, and automatically generate a template corresponding to the web page so as to utilize the most adaptive template to analyze the web page. The invention only analyzes the real part of the contents in the web page, thus reducing interference of junk information, improving accuracy and precision of the web page analysis and obviously enhancing the web page analysis effect.

Techniques for typographic electronic pagination are disclosed. In one embodiment, the techniques may be realized as an apparatus for typographic electronic pagination. In one implementation of the apparatus, the apparatus comprises at least one non-transitory processor readable storage medium with instructions stored on the at least one medium. The instructions are configured to be readable by at least one non-transitory processor and cause the at least one processor to operate. The processor operates so as to receive a plurality of articles, generate an index page based on relative visual weightings of the plurality of articles and a size of a canvas adapted to contain the index page, and generate a page layout for the plurality of articles based on page layout weightings and the size of canvas.

Methods and systems are provided for controlling pagination in computer software applications. Abstract classes and methods are provided with programming interfaces to improve the ease with which developers can create applications that allow for co-pagination with arbitrary object types, and can create arbitrary object types that can co-paginate with arbitrary applications.

The invention provides a multi-function peripheral apparatus for processing unified job steps. The respective jobs of copying, printing, scanning, and faxing processed by an integrated application are unitarily divided into four job steps. A package of function modules 41 A selectively used in the respective jobs is classified into four groups of input, create, edit, and output function modules 410 to 412 according to the division. A data format is unified into bitmap by a create function module 411 A, and the bitmap data is processed by an edit function module 411 B for pagination or aggregation, etc. In response to receiving setting information and a job code, a job controlling module 43 A creates job step control blocks 440 to 442 and writes the information therein to create a job. Each of job step controlling (JSC) modules 450 to 452 starts a function module for each page, and after the completion thereof, creates a thread control block for the next downstream side JSC module.

The present invention relates to a system and methodology that provides for adjusting content that is to be received and displayed by a device so that the content is meaningful to a recipient. The invention provides for rendering of variable-sized pages of dynamic content based at least in part on user interface (UI) characteristics of a receiving device (e.g., client program). One particular aspect of the invention provides for an abstraction layer that permits a content developer to specify what content is to be displayed to an end user without requiring the developer to delineate markup tags that are to be employed by different browsers of respective mobile devices. Thus, for example, such aspect of the invention provides for automatically adjusting (e.g., paginating) content into variable-sized pages appropriate for a requesting device. A content analyzer receives and analyzes content to be rendered at a plurality of recipient devices against display capabilities of the respective devices. An abstraction layer accesses information relating to capabilities of the devices, and maps attributes relating to the content to the device capabilities, the abstraction layer provides the mapping to the content analyzer. A content distributor parses the content into subsets coincident with the display capabilities of the respective devices, and sequentially distributes respective subsets to the devices for rendering thereof.

A method and a file format transformation system (FFTS) for transforming marked-up content in a first file format (FFF) to a second file format (SFF) that enables automated browser based pagination are provided. The FFTS reflows marked-up content of the FFF into a continuous page. The FFTS generates and appends tags to spaces and block elements identified in the reflown marked-up content of the FFF. For each space and block element, the FFTS determines and tags line breaks in the reflown marked-up content. For each line break, the FFTS identifies, tags, and positions anchored floats and footnotes on a current page based on space availability. The FFTS positions page breaks in the continuous page based on a configurable page height and the line breaks. The FFTS groups the marked-up content, inserts pagination elements and renders the grouped marked-up content in the SFF based on a selected level of reversibility.

In a method for automatically and scalably selecting images from an image collection for inclusion in a photo album, an initial pagination arrangement containing a subset of all of the images contained in the image collection is identified. In addition, a determination as to whether the initial number of pages of the initial pagination arrangement is equivalent to a desired number of pages is made and the initial pagination arrangement is modified in an automatic and scalable manner in response to the initial number of pages differing from the desired number of pages.

The invention discloses a method for displaying a table in a document, and belongs to the field of information display. The method is used for solving the problem that the reading fluency of a user is influenced by the method for displaying a cross-page table in the document in the prior art. The method comprises the following steps of: determining all cross-page cells in the table; determining cross-page text lines in all the cross-page cells, and determining a text line which is closest to the upper border of the table in the cross-page text lines as a pagination display boundary of the table; and displaying table contents between the upper border of the table and the lower edge of a current page in the current page, and displaying table contents between the pagination display boundary of the table and the lower border of the table in the next page of the current page. Each character in a cell crossing the lower edge of the current page is integrally displayed in the current page or the next page, a relative position relationship between the contents of adjacent cells is kept, and the height of the table is kept unchanged, so that the reading fluency of the user is ensured, and user experiences are improved.

A system and machine-implemented method including receiving a request for a set of content items within a session, identifying, in response to the request, one or more content items, determining if the session is associated with a continuation token, wherein the continuation token provides information regarding the content items provided for display during the session, generating a continuation token for the session when the session is not associated with a continuation token, providing at least one of the one or more content items for display and updating the continuation token with information regarding the at least one of the one or more content items provided for display and a time stamp.